Howard News

HOWARD - This eastern South Dakota community is humming even before the autumn sun rises.

Posted by: Cory Heidelberger - 11/05/2009 8:02 AM Dakota Digest report on how wind power is boosting the Howard economy .

The 72-feet-long blades, with a mass of about 1 ton each, from the 165-foot-tall tower of the wind turbine owned by Akron-Westfield School District are on the ground.

Posted by: Cory Heidelberger - 10/05/2009 8:12 AM [Part 6 of a series based on my conversation with Matt McGovern, Matt McLarty, and Rick Hauffe about America's energy future.] Suppose I offered you a way to cut your electric usage 15%. Would you say, "I don't believe in global warming, so no thanks"? The fiscal conservatives in my house sure ...

WINFRED - This fading dot of a prairie town hangs like an appendix a half-mile off Highway 34 between Madison and Howard.

Nearly 40 bands are expected to march down Main Avenue Saturday morning to kick off the 22nd annual Sioux Falls Festival of Bands.

Firefighters from Madison and Howard were busy late Monday morning after a fire was reported at a building operated by beekeeping business A.H. Meyer & Sons in Winfred.

The Citi Foundation has given $250,000 to help create a training program in Howard for renewable energy occupations.

As I read the Sept. 3 Argus Leader, I marveled at the feel-good, front-page story about the community of Howard but then was dumfounded by the Argus Leader editorial headlined: "It's time to settle State Fair's future." I have lived in Huron for three years, and every year around State Fair time, there are rocks being thrown from the Sioux Falls ...

South Dakota will close driver's license bureaus in 17 communities across the state, officials said today.

Work is under way on an $8.1 million rural learning center in the small eastern South Dakota community of Howard.

Groundbreaking Wednesday for an $8.1 million expansion of the rural learning center in Howard, South Dakota.

HOWARD -- Work got under way Wednesday on a $8.1 million rural learning center that's expected to help revive this small South Dakota community by focusing on green technology.

By Monica Wepking, Editor Andes Central School District has hired three new teachers for the 2009-2010 school year.

Repower South Dakota blew into Howard today to tout Knight & Carver Wind Group's blade manufacturing plant - as well as the estimated 5,000 clean energy jobs it says can be generated in the state through federal climate legislation.

Posted by: Cory Heidelberger - 08/20/2009 7:08 AM The results of this month's referenda in Brookings and Howard offer a lesson for all politicians and organizations on the value of transparency.

Fern Postma of Chancellor will celebrate her 80th birthday today, Aug. 2 and her husband, Lester, will celebrate his 81st birthday Sunday, Aug.

It's been a year since the Bureau of Indian Affairs took action to reduce crime rates on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation.

GARY - A wind power wunderkind is waking up the echoes again on a dormant and decaying campus that once gave vision to the blind.

Pierre is the only example of a state capital that does not share any letters with that state's name, according to legendsofamerica.com. The town of Howard was named on July 4, 1881, in honor of Judge J.D. Farmer's son, Howard, who recently had died, according to "South Dakota Geographic Names," published by the University of South Dakota.